Useful sites: Photography and Equipment | Photo-i.co.uk : useful site for reviews of printers, scanners, etc. inc. regular "interactive" reviews |
Useful sites: Photoshop and Digital Image Processing | PhotoshopNews : news, gossip (and a degree of self-indulgence) from the top Photshop gurus
PixelGenius.com : Home of the excellent PhotoKit Sharpeners - if you only buy one Photoshop plug-in...
Dr. Brown : the inimitable Doc. provides a wide rnage of tips, tricks and well-thought-out procedures for getting more out of Adobe's flagship product
Ian Lyons : Tutorials, essays, reviews and a whole heap of stuff from one of the UK's leading writers on digital techniques, colour management, Photshop and Lightroom Gary Ballard : Gary's rants about Photoshop have often helped me out in my struggles to control the beast
Luminous Landscape : Michael Reichmann is a fine photographer who knows Photoshop and Lightroom backwards. Useful Forum too on this site.
Digital Outback : Another site stuffed with useful advice and guidance, - also hardware reviews & good Forum Scanning : Wayne Fulton's site was the best source I encountered when struggling with film scanning And then there's Lightroom : Adobe's next-generation photographer's app Sadly, Bruce Fraser, self-confessed "colour geek" and pre-eminent author on Photoshop and all things digital-imaging, died on 16th Dec 2006. I learnt more about the mysteries of Photoshop, colour management, and a range of related matters from Bruce's writings, in books and online, than from anyone else. His writings are witty, lucid and supremely informative. Oh, and he built the PhotoKit Sharpeners (see above). To learn more about Scotland's greatest contributor to the digital arts, visit brucefraserlegacy.com |
Visit the Highlands of Scotland | Visit Scotland : Scotland's national tourist board. Not loved by all, but it'll get you started
Visit Fort William : Lochaber's premier info site, for tourists and locals alike : what's on, where's hot, who's cool, where's the nearest dentist, and much, much more NTS Glencoe and NTS Glenfinnan: These visitor centres are a must if you're up this way |
Visit the Virtual Highlands
Highland Photographers on the Web | Michael Macgregor : Lochaber's premier landscape photographer John MacPherson : Top-flight landscape, environmental and natural history photography of the Highlands and the Islands Iain Ferguson : does the rounds of Lochaber, bringing photogrpahy to the people and the people to photography Richard Childs : Oban based photographer and gallery-owner
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LochaberPhoto Approved Retailers | Lochaber Frames & Pictures : Sharing premises with the estimable Fired Arts pottery cafe, Simon Green is a fine framer and a great guide to the mysteries and materials of the craft. He also sells my prints The Cromag : Craft shop just by the harbour in the fishing village of Mallaig, the terminus of the West Highland Railway line. Sells a selection of my prints, including some commissioned works not otherwise available The Watersedge : Mallaig's Tourists Info Centre also sells a range of local and local-related products, including, of course, my prints National Trust for Scotland Glenfinnan Visitor Centre : sited in one of the most stunning locations in the Highlands, between the Jacobite monument on the shore of Loch Sheil and the biggest of the West Highland railway's viaducts, the Centre has a museum of the Jacobite rebellion (and a selection of my prints) |
